Acknowledgements

In spite of its length, this is a very incomplete history. It says nothing
of the support provided by our dedicated office and technical staff (in
particular, over the years our fine machine and electronics shops have been
an important part of the successes of almost all of the major research laboratories
in the Department), and much less space has been devoted to the teaching
side of the department than it deserves.

As a slight redress to this imbalance, I want to end with at least a mention
of some of the outstanding teachers in the Department who have received
formal recognition from outside the university in recent years. Dr. Dean
Gaily was a winner of the OCUFA Teaching Award in 1990 and a 3M Teaching
Fellowship in 1991. Dr. Pedro Goldman, in addition to having a teaching
award in the Faculty of Music named in his honour, was the winner of the
1998 Canadian Association of Physicists Medal for Excellence in Teaching
Physics. Patrick Whippey [1966-present] (Reading, PhD,
1966) has for many years been deeply involved with science education, not
only in the university classroom, but also in the community at large. In
recognition of these contributions, Dr. Whippey was awarded the Distinguished
Service Award for 1998 by Youth Science Foundation Canada.

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to many faculty members for their comments. I am especially
grateful to the following former students, technicians, faculty, department
heads and chairs, and professors emeritus and emerita for their written
and verbal recollections and comments: P.A. Alford, C.M. Carmichael, P.A.
Forsyth, P.A. Fraser, J.A. Fulford, G.R. Hébert, J.D. Jackson, R.W. Nicholls,
G.S. Rose, D. Rumbold, J. Talman, and A. Wehlau. I particularly want to
thank Mr. Alton Ross, the son-in-law of Dr. Dearle, for making available
to me Dr. Dearle's papers, which were an important and valuable source of
information for this history. I also acknowledge the assistance of the staff
of the UWO Regional Collection for access to historical information about
the Departments and the University. Finally, I thank Mr. Paul Chefurka for
permission to use his photograph of Dr. McGowan, and Victor Aziz Photography
Ltd. for permission to use the photographs of Dr. Forsyth, Dr. Alford, and
Dr. Rose.